Pop Up Ads on TH

pepperdean · Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 5:01 am Post subject:

The problem may be in your computer. I don't get any pop-ups.

Alan

Brad361 · Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:13 am Post subject:

trumpethead · Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 3:40 pm Post subject:

I use AdBlock and never have any ads.

OldSchoolEuph · Heavyweight Member Joined: 07 Apr 2012 Posts: 2440

Three times now this morning, TH has tried to launch background aps - malware protection is blocking. This is not good.
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Rapier232 · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:20 am Post subject:

Constantly on my iPad. I may have to avoid this site.
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PH · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:19 am Post subject:

I need to know how to entirely empty my bowels every morning.
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LittleRusty · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:35 am Post subject:

What popup ads?

I use Chrome on Windows to access TrumpetHerald. I have blocked taboola after they went over my tolerance for annoying ads.

Don Herman rev2 · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:43 pm Post subject:

LittleRusty · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:36 pm Post subject:

JayKosta · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:55 pm Post subject:

Check the options for your browser, they might be in the 'Advanced' or 'Content' sections.
Hopefully you'll find a check box that says something such as -
Allow / Prohibit Pop Ups.

I use Firefox and the setting is in - Tools / Options / Content - Block Pop Up windows .

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greyMike · New Member Joined: 20 Oct 2019 Posts: 9

Must be very annoying, glad I'm not experiencing it on PC.

LittleRusty · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:03 pm Post subject:

LittleRusty · Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:16 pm Post subject:

I tried using the IOS filtering method I posted above, but it doesn't seem to work on my iPhone. It still works on the iPad, which is back at the repair shop due to a shoddy screen replacement.

Robert P · Heavyweight Member Joined: 28 Feb 2013 Posts: 2595

I recently started seeing those odd pop-ups on a computer other than my own but never see them on my home computer that has an ad-blocker running. Now that I think of it, I don't see them on my Android phone that uses Chrome either.
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OldSchoolEuph · Heavyweight Member Joined: 07 Apr 2012 Posts: 2440

For my Safari browser, they are in the lower left corner (scroll down) and often not functioning. For Chrome, also below unless I scroll a lot then they may float up over but can be scrolled away from.
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dstdenis · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 4:57 am Post subject:

For computer, I've found the Brave browser blocks the Taboola ads and pop up windows.

For iPad, I use the Purify app with the Safari browser. It also blocks the Taboola ads at the bottom and the pop up windows.

It's an arms race. Blockers work for awhile, then they don't.

I don't mind well-behaved ads, but Taboola is too much for me.
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ayryq · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 5:59 am Post subject:

Taboola et al are terrible. Sometimes called a "chum box."

I have both Taboola and Outbrain blocked in my router so they never appear if I'm at home. News articles on mobile sites are the worst offenders and I only see big empty white spaces now. It's always a shock when I load up Google News when I'm away from home and all the ads are back.

I highly recommend attempting to block them at the network level; there are no downsides (nothing breaks if they can't be loaded).
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Anthony Miller · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:35 am Post subject:

Certainly these ads - which I never click on - have curtailed my visits to this excellent site. There must be another way to raise funds to keep the site going. Patreon, perhaps?

Speed · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2019 6:06 am Post subject:

I view this site from a laptop and a desktop, both of which have ad blockers installed. I have yet to have any sort of ad pop up on this site.

Can you not install an ad blocker on an iPad?

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